Salaried GP

Highwoods surgery is looking to recruit a GP for 2 sessions a week. The successful applicant will be working alongside (full time) 3 partners, 4 nurse practitioners, clinical pharmacists, with the full support of our nurses, HCAs, reception and admin team.

Main duties of the job

• In accordance with the practice timetable, as agreed, the post-holder will make themselves available to undertake a variety of duties, including surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, home visits, checking and signing repeat prescriptions and dealing with queries, reasonable paperwork and correspondence in a timely fashion
• Making professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation
• Assessing the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems
• Screening patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
• Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols
• Providing counselling and health education
• Admitting patients to and from the caseload and referring to other care providers as appropriate
• Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards
• Collecting data for audit purposes if needed
• Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions
• Prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary or generically whenever this is clinically appropriate
• In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a GP working within primary care.

About us

We are an approximately 8000 patient surgery located near Highwoods country park in Colchester. We are a training practice and one of our GPs is one of the leads for the training hub. Our surgery has recently undergone extensive renovations giving us an extra 2 clinical rooms and 2 consultation rooms.

Job responsibilities

If you would like to find outmore information about this role, please do not hesitate to get in contact withus.

Person Specification Experience

• Good understanding and experience of chronic disease management, and primary prevention and screening services
• Ability to take responsibility for your own career development, learning and performance and are responsible for ensuring that all your mandatory training is in date
• Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies and guidelines, e.g prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety
• Commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in a confidential manner
• Able to work within a dynamic active and friendly team

Qualifications

• Fully qualified GP with GMC registration
• Annual appraisal and revalidation if appropriate
• valid driving license
• Be on the NHSE medical performers list

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.